Researchers at Microsoft are warning that malware taking advantage of a patched Java vulnerability is now being heavily targeted. Detection rates for exploits against the vulnerability (CVE-2012-1723) are now overtaking attacks abusing a previous widely attacked Java bug (CVE-2012-0507), which was used to spread the widespread Flashback trojan that targeted Mac users. Jeong Wook Oh of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center wrote Wednesday in a blog post that the latest vulnerability, classed as a type confusion flaw and patched in June, shows "a high success rate with exploitation when Java Runtime Environment is not updated to the latest secure version."
Malware, Network Security, Vulnerability Management
Despite patch, exploits against new Java bug picking up
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